{"id":7570,"date":"2020-05-15T15:03:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T19:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?page_id=7570"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:59:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:59:28","slug":"system-settings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/scs-laptop-requirement\/system-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"System Settings and Backups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        System Settings and Backups\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h2 id=\"system-settings\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">System Settings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The School of Computer Science recommends systems settings so that your laptop can perform reliably during the course of your studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#virus\">Virus Protection<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"#firewall\">Firewall<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"#backuprestore\">Windows 10 backup &amp; restore<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"#backups\">Backing up files<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"virus-protection\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a id=\"virus\"><\/a>Virus Protection<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The School of Computer Science recommends that you enable Windows Defender if you do not have an anti-virus application installed on your laptop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/mem\/intune\/user-help\/turn-on-defender-windows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to turn on Windows Defender<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"firewall\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a id=\"firewall\"><\/a>Firewall<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A firewall is a network security device that monitors incoming and outgoing network traffic and permits or blocks data packets based on a set of security rules. You should have your Windows firewall turned on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4028544\/windows-10-turn-microsoft-defender-firewall-on-or-off\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to turn on Microsoft Defender Firewall<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"windows-10-backup-and-restore\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a id=\"backuprestore\"><\/a>Windows 10 backup and restore<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Windows 10 has an automatic tool to make a copy of everything on your computer, including operating system files, settings, apps, and all your files stored in the primary drive, as well as those files stored in different locations. Then when there is a system failure and a critical error prevents your laptop from starting, you can use the&nbsp;&#8220;Backup and Restore&#8221; feature to recover individual files or the entire system as necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4027408\/windows-10-backup-and-restore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Backup and restore in Windows 10<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"backing-up-files\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a id=\"backups\"><\/a>Backing up Files<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You may want to backup user files more frequently than system files. There are a number of ways you can backup your files and protect them from system failures or user errors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/technical-support\/backups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Backing up Files<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>System Settings The School of Computer Science recommends systems settings so that your laptop can perform reliably during the course of your studies. Virus Protection Firewall Windows 10 backup &amp; restore Backing up files &nbsp; Virus Protection The School of Computer Science recommends that you enable Windows Defender if you do not have an anti-virus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":7671,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-7570","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10194,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7570\/revisions\/10194"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=7570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}